Rebecca Solnit: if I were a man

Growing up, the author joked she was the perfect son: intelligent, ambitious, independent. How different might her life have been?When I was very young, some gay friends of mine threw a cross-dressing party. My boyfriend at the time, with the help of his mother, did so well that a lot of straight men were unnerved; they needed to know that the lust-inspiring, simpering siren in the tight slip was not compromising their heterosexuality. I was not nearly so convincing as a Rod Stewart-ish man with